Official suspended for cursing tipsters
By Li Qian |
July 24, 2013, Wednesday
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AN environmental official in north China's Hebei Province who responded to a tip-off about pollution with an expletive-filled outburst has been suspended from his post.
Liang Qingchen, deputy director of Renqiu City Environmental Protection Bureau, is said to have sworn at three visitors to his office on Monday, shouting "Get out of here!" after they claimed a zinc coating plant was illegally dumping waste water into ditches, the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reported.
Yesterday, Liang apologized to the whistle-blowers, and investigators were sent to the Ruifeng factory in Xinzhongyi Town.
If violations are found, the factory will have its license revoked, officials said.
Water near the factory was the color of orange juice and contained yellow powder, which was suspected to be chemical waste, the newspaper reported.
Though residents had made several complaints to the bureau about the factory, it had never been punished, the report added.
The three whistle-blowers took photographs showing the pollution when they went to see Liang.
However, he seem to make every effort to speak for the factory, the newspaper said, insisting that a sewage outfall had been blocked and that the water on the photos was very likely sewage.
"You can't ban them from discharging living waste, can you?" he is reported to have said.
His defense of the factory annoyed the three whistle-blowers and a quarrel broke out.
"We believe government departments serve for us. But as a leader, he lied brazenly in the face of conclusive evidence," they said.
Liang Qingchen, deputy director of Renqiu City Environmental Protection Bureau, is said to have sworn at three visitors to his office on Monday, shouting "Get out of here!" after they claimed a zinc coating plant was illegally dumping waste water into ditches, the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reported.
Yesterday, Liang apologized to the whistle-blowers, and investigators were sent to the Ruifeng factory in Xinzhongyi Town.
If violations are found, the factory will have its license revoked, officials said.
Water near the factory was the color of orange juice and contained yellow powder, which was suspected to be chemical waste, the newspaper reported.
Though residents had made several complaints to the bureau about the factory, it had never been punished, the report added.
The three whistle-blowers took photographs showing the pollution when they went to see Liang.
However, he seem to make every effort to speak for the factory, the newspaper said, insisting that a sewage outfall had been blocked and that the water on the photos was very likely sewage.
"You can't ban them from discharging living waste, can you?" he is reported to have said.
His defense of the factory annoyed the three whistle-blowers and a quarrel broke out.
"We believe government departments serve for us. But as a leader, he lied brazenly in the face of conclusive evidence," they said.
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